“Silence, exile, and cunning.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“Language is the dress of thought.”
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”
“A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is those who think they know.”
“Women are, by their nature, capable of the same activities as men.”
“Philosophy and religion are both paths to truth.”
“The world is divided into men who have a religion and no reason and men who have reason and no religion.”
“Man is by nature a political animal; he who is unfit to live in society is either a beast or a god.”
“Truth does not contradict truth.”
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.”